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Challenge: Despair (Classic Editing)
Camera: Canon PowerShot S40
Location: Silver Spring, MD
Date: Feb 17, 2003
Galleries: Photojournalism
Date Uploaded: Feb 21, 2003

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 03/08/2003 08:34:10 AM
Greetings from the Critique Club
By Inspzil

Composition - Wow that's some serious snow!! I live in Michigan and we get our fair share too. We haven't had a lot this year, but it has been exceptionally cold. Oh wait, I'm doing a critique....sorry forgot.

The subject matter in this particular photo does not lend itself very well to the despair challenge. I think the snowy situation is inconvenient, but its difficult to judge despair without a more animate subject. In any challenge, I think this subject doesn't have the "WOW" factor we are constantly seeking. It's a little to busy in the background to be totally effective. The picture is pretty dark and I have mixed feelings about that. I think that it does add to the despair mood, but that it takes away from the overall picture quality.

Technical - Maybe the contrast could be boosted a little so it wasn't quite so grey. The photo seems to be pretty well focused. It does however seem a little underexposed. Snow shots are difficult to properly expose. A little higher EV and I think you could get the dreary feeling without being quite so dark. By turning the contrast up a little with the current photo, I think you'd see about the same effect.

Overall - Not a particularly good photo for this challenge. I think the photo is a little dark overall but not badly taken. Hope this was helpful for you. GOod luck in future challenges. - Inspzil
 Comments Made During the Challenge
03/01/2003 12:33:58 AM
good idea, all of that snow really looks like "despair" to me
 02/28/2003 02:47:41 PM
While this is a fairly well taken photo, I am not seeing a whole lot of dispair. I'm sure some of these boxes contain newspapers, but the one I can make out is an rental or house sale advertisement. 4 Swash
 02/27/2003 04:27:45 PM
If you use the Levels function in photoshop (color correction), you could really help this image along. As it is, it takes a moment for me to register what's taking place on the screen. That levels function would help this image pop off the screen. But then again, the greyness does give this image it's downer feel...eh, nice job (8)
 02/26/2003 09:30:52 PM
Definitely despair. not sure if my monitor or not, but slight more depth of field and focus may have gotten a bit more detail out of the snow drift. 4
 02/26/2003 11:02:57 AM
Needs a level boost
 02/26/2003 07:27:34 AM
no news is good news!
 02/25/2003 11:47:44 AM
interesting despair shot :) The color seems a bit flat and the weather isn't helping much with that... maybe a low level fill flash would help some.. nice work :) - setzler
 02/24/2003 11:13:01 PM
This is a very good photo and has the appearance of despair
 02/24/2003 02:42:55 PM
Could've played with the contrast here to make this more effective.
 02/24/2003 11:16:21 AM
I thought no news is good news...


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